I'm old enough to have been in junior high when Mandy came out and IIRC people weren't all that freaked out about it then - nobody knew him, it was his first hit and the cool kids hadn't yet deemed Barry Manilow forever uncool. Then a short time later, KISS came out with "Beth" which is equally as wimpy a song, piano ballad with strings and all, but they mostly got a pass. Maybe Barry should have worn clown makeup and kitty whiskers and platform shoes. Maybe he does, I haven't seen him in a while. And no, computer, I'm not going to add "Manilow" to spell check.

GAT_00:FirstNationalBastard: GAT_00: Seriously? You put Jamie on there and you go with farking Weezer? Oooh, she made the whiny biatch sad. Jamie shot her dad because he wouldn't stop raping her.

That was Janie, not Jamie.

Although Van Halen had Jamie crying for some reason... probably when she found out David Lee Roth had hairplugs.

Well I'll be damned. I never heard an n there. It's still a list fail to leave it off.

Indeed it is. That was a hit song in 89/90. And if anything's a name ruiner, it's being associated with a girl who shoots her incest lovin rapist daddy.

/well, as much of a "name ruiner" as any of these songs are.//Also, the Van Halen song may also have been Janie. But I don't think Van Halen's Janie was crying because her Daddy was an incest-loving rapist.///Beth should have been on the list, too. I mean, listen to the lyrics... Beth was a nag who wouldn't leave her old man alone to do his job.

Beth, I hear you ballin but I can't get in the door,You changed the locks again, you miserable farking whore.I'll wait a few more hours for the guy that you just blewAnd I swear I'll tell him all about the coont you turned into.The coont you turned intoooooooooo.

FirstNationalBastard:GAT_00: FirstNationalBastard: GAT_00: Seriously? You put Jamie on there and you go with farking Weezer? Oooh, she made the whiny biatch sad. Jamie shot her dad because he wouldn't stop raping her.

That was Janie, not Jamie.

Although Van Halen had Jamie crying for some reason... probably when she found out David Lee Roth had hairplugs.

Well I'll be damned. I never heard an n there. It's still a list fail to leave it off.

Indeed it is. That was a hit song in 89/90. And if anything's a name ruiner, it's being associated with a girl who shoots her incest lovin rapist daddy.

/well, as much of a "name ruiner" as any of these songs are.//Also, the Van Halen song may also have been Janie. But I don't think Van Halen's Janie was crying because her Daddy was an incest-loving rapist.///Beth should have been on the list, too. I mean, listen to the lyrics... Beth was a nag who wouldn't leave her old man alone to do his job.

I am so disappoint with you people.

1978 will tell us that Jamie's Cryin' because she should mean more than a one night stand.

Also, the name Gloria was much enhanced by Patti Smith and her smooth declarations.

Some of those were pretty fail. Half the names listed for "Freek a leek" were shiat to begin with. A shiatty hip hop song isn't going to ruin them any further. Half the rest of the slides were just songs that had a girls name in them, very few were major well known songs like Dirty Diana, Mandy, Jenny, Roxanne, Jolene, Hey there Delilah, Lola, etc.

sno man:TommyDeuce: sno man: Elvis Costello's Alison should have some love in this thread...

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Which reminds me, should I acquire another daughter, I really should name her Veronica

nice.

Allison, absolutely.

And Veronica...I've got a relative that is about to die within the next few days from Alzheimer's. Second relative I've seen go this way. I can't watch that video without choking up, and I can't ever turn it off.

I would just like to say that before that song came out, I was always "Lady Di." In the 5th grade, Dirty Diana came out and for about 5 years, it was inescapable. I farking hate that song so much. It's not even that great of a song!